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Talmadge, Betty

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

The Talmud

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.

Tandy, Jessica

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

Taylor, Elizabeth

If hard times give us character, I am the most charismatic person I ever hope to be!

Father Taylor

There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences which separate them.

Teasdale, Sara

I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.

Teasdale, Sara

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

ten Boom, Corrie

Joy runs deeper than despair.

Tenuta, Judy

Oh, friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to hate you.

Thatcher, Margaret

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

Thoreau, Henry David

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Thoreau, Henry David

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Thoreau, Henry David

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Thoreau, Henry David

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Thoreau, Henry David

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it.

Thurber, James

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

Thurston, Mark A.

The dream does not end when we wake up and write it down.

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (J. R. R.)

Not all those who wander are lost.

Tomlin, Lily

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Traditional

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam. (I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)

Traditional

This little piggy went to market.

Truth, Sojourner

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Truth, Sojourner

That . . . man . . . says women can't have as much rights as man, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

Tucker, Sophie

I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.

Truman, Harry S.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Trump, Donald

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.

Tuchman, Barbara

Words are seductive and dangerous material to be used with caution.

Tupper, Martin Fraquhar

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Turner, Dale E.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Turner, Tina

I wasn't as smart then as I am now. But who ever is?

Twain, Mark

A battle is only truly great or small according to its results.

Twain, Mark

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside without her . . . . I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

Twain, Mark

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Twain, Mark

Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you a chance to commit ore.

Twain, Mark

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Twain, Mark

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

Twain, Mark

Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Twain, Mark

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

Twain, Mark

Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.

Twain, Mark

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Twain, Mark

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Twain, Mark

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking. . . . I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions before I was born.

Twain, Mark

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Twain, Mark

Familiarity breeds contempt&emdash;and children.

Twain, Mark

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

Twain, Mark

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Twain, Mark

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Twain, Mark

Get your facts first. . . then distort 'em as much as you please.

Twain, Mark

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Twain, Mark

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Twain, Mark

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Twain, Mark

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that the majority in any town?

Twain, Mark

Happiness ain't a thing in itself&emdash;it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Twain, Mark

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Twain, Mark

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.

Twain, Mark

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Twain, Mark

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise, that I didn't repent of in twenty-four hours.

Twain, Mark

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Twain, Mark

I used to worship the mighty genius of Michaelangelo&emdash;that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture&emdash;great in everything he undertook. But I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast. . . . I like a change, occasionally.

Twain, Mark

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Twain, Mark

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Twain, Mark

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Twain, Mark

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Twain, Mark

It is amazing what little harm doctors do when one considers all the opportunity they have.

Twain, Mark

It is best to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.

Twain, Mark

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Twain, Mark

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Twain, Mark

It is curious&emdash;curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

Twain, Mark

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Twain, Mark

It's noble to be good, and it's nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble.

Twain, Mark

Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Twain, Mark

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Twain, Mark

Laughter is the greatest weapon that we humans possess, but it's the one we use the least.

Twain, Mark

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Twain, Mark

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Twain, Mark

Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Twain, Mark

Man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Twain, Mark

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Twain, Mark

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Twain, Mark

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Twain, Mark

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

Twain, Mark

Nothing remains the same. When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination calls for.

Twain, Mark

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.

Twain, Mark

Optimist: day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Twain, Mark

Prophecies which promise valuable things, desirable things, good things, worthy things, never come true. Prophecies of this kind are like wars fought in a good cause&emdash;they are so rare that they don't count.

Twain, Mark

Shut the door. Not that it lets in the cold but it lets out the coziness.

Twain, Mark

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Twain, Mark

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Twain, Mark

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Twain, Mark

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and soul, finding there capacities which the outsides didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect.

Twain, Mark

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous.

Twain, Mark

The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost&emdash;not another man&emdash;is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

Twain, Mark

The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Twain, Mark

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Twain, Mark

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Twain, Mark

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal. . . .

Twain, Mark

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Twain, Mark

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Twain, Mark

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Twain, Mark

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not really work at all.

Twain, Mark

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

Twain, Mark

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Twain, Mark

There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else's.

Twain, Mark

There is a moral sense and an immoral sense. History shows that the moral sense enables us to see morality and how to avoid it, and that immoral sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it.

Twain, Mark

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Twain, Mark

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Twain, Mark

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

To some people it is fatal to be noticed by greatness.

Twain, Mark

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Twain, Mark

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can forget them, banish them, abolish them.

Twain, Mark

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.

Twain, Mark

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Twain, Mark

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Twain, Mark

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books&emdash;theoretically, at least.

Twain, Mark

We should be careful to get out of experience only the wisdom that is in it&emdash;and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again&emdash;and that is well; but she will also never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Twain, Mark

What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Twain, Mark

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

Twain, Mark

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Twain, Mark

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Twain, Mark

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

Twain, Mark

Words are only painted fire; a look is fire itself.

Twain, Mark

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. . . . Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Twain, Mark

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they are there.

Twain, Mark

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Twain, Mark

You can't make a life over&emdash;society wouldn't let you do it if you would.

Twain, Mark

You can't pray a lie.

Tyger, Frank

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

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